SLR Consulting is an international environmental and engineering consultancy with 76 offices across five continents. The Southern African operation operates out of Johannesburg with other offices in Cape Town, Somerset West, Windhoek and Swakopmund. In 2014, SLR Consulting acquired CCA Environmental, which as of June 2016 has been fully incorporated into the company and operates out of Cape Town.

South Africa’s biggest state-owned enterprises, known as SOEs, are left cash-strapped after the government failed to heed warnings from its advisers about a lack of leadership, oversight and strategic vision.

A Consortium of Nigerian and South African investors has agreed to put AU$25m (US$23m) into Australian-listed Sunbird Energy to help it advance its plans to develop the Ibhubesi offshore gas field, 380km northwest of Cape Town, it said.

Oil and gas explorations off the east coast of South Africa have been suspended after a complaint was laid over the impact of underwater sound pollution on sea life. Petroleum Agency of South Africa (PASA) halted seismic surveys pending dialogue between the relevant international oil firms and the environmentalist that lodged the complaint about the alleged out-of-season tests.